Destinations
Hukilau Marketplace Wraps Up Five-Year Remake at PCC
The Hukilau Marketplace is one of the last major projects being completed at the Polynesian Cultural Centre on Oahu, as part of $100 million spent on facility and experiential improvements over the past five years. Other recent improvements of note include a rejuvenated Hawaii Village with a design inspired by ancient land division traditions, plus the features in the village like new activities, architecture and exhibits of native Hawaiian culture. “Hawaiian Journey” is a new cinematic experience housed in a theatre built to resemble a volcano and shown on a high-definition...
Connect With Ontario’s Tourism Gems
The Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Corporation (OTMPC) has launched “The Local Insider” tourism campaign featuring great places to visit and things to do this fall. The campaign gives travellers the “inside track” on ideas and activities that are unique and distinct in every region of the province. The Local Insider magazine is a signature piece of the campaign with 336,000 English and 28,000 French copies distributed throughout Ontario. Another 803,500 copies will be distributed in New York City, Buffalo and Syracuse. The campaign is supported by additional marketing...
New WestJet Flights to Islands of Loreto
WestJet will launch a new service from Calgary to the Islands of Loreto in the Baja peninsula of Mexico, starting on Valentine's Day next year. Loreto will welcome guests on the weekly Saturday flight starting February through May 2015. Flights will be operated on WestJet’s Boeing Next-Generation 737 aircraft. Inbound flights to the region will depart Calgary at 9 a.m. and arrive at the Islands of Loreto at 12:55 p.m. Service from Loreto is slated to depart at 1:50 p.m., with return flights arriving in Calgary at 5:56...
On The Set
Dubrovnik is certainly on many a travel wish list today. The spectacular Croatian town is a UNESCO world heritage site, a booming cruise destination, an "up and coming destination for Canadians," according to Transat Holidays, and, if that isn't enough, the setting for King's Landing in the wildly popular Game of Thrones TV series. Filming began on Friday for season five of the series, with a Dubrovnik fortress decked out in Lannister colours and visitors and locals alike preening for celebrity sightings, reports PressToday correspondent Mike...
Sunny Days
Its always high season in Venice, the trade in the city says. Nevertheless, despite the crowds, is there any better place to be on a sunny Sunday afternoon? Air Transat flies to the Italian city seasonally, continuing through the end of the month and PressToday correspondent Mike Baginski is part of a small press group invited to explore the famed "Disneyland for adults," which has bubbled to the surface of public awareness in recent days thanks to the celebrity wedding of George Clooney. Stayed tuned for more in upcoming editions of Canadian Travel Press and Travel...
Colourful Kentucky
Fall has arrived, and with it the 2014 edition of the ColorFall program touting peak foliage viewing areas and autumn events around Kentucky. ColorFall is designed to aid public enjoyment coverage of autumn in the Bluegrass State. Co-ordinated by the Kentucky Department of Travel and Tourism and the Kentucky Department of Parks, ColorFall is now in its 29th year. ColorFall features a web site (http://www.kentuckytourism.com/seasons) that provides information about the state’s beauty at this time of year, including reports on stages of leaf changes from naturalists at parks...
Upping The Ante
In this week's digital edition of Canadian Travel Press, Montreal editor, Mike Dunbar reports that Florida’s tourism industry and its destination marketing organization (DMO) now have a new visitor target to chase: 127 visitors annually by 2020. With 93.7 million tourist arrivals in 2013 and 50 million in the first half of this year, all indicators point to the industry meeting Governor Rick Scott’s challenge to top the 100-million mark by 2015. But now the state’s Office of Economic and Demographic Research has issued its own challenge; raising the bar to 127 million by the...
Mokulele Airlines Adds Four New Routes
Mokulele Airlines will expand its inter-island service with the addition of four new routes that will begin on Oct. 20. The new routes will operate between Kalaeloa (Oahu) and Molokai, Kalaeloa and Kapalua (Maui), Kapalua and Molokai, and Kapalua and Hana (Maui). On July 1, Mokulele began service from Kalaeloa Airport, the former Barber's Point Naval Air Base John Rogers Field, to make inter-island travel more convenient for residents and visitors on west Oahu. “We have been very gratified by the response to our service between Kalaeloa and Kahului,” said Mokulele CEO Ron...